Word: farentino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...follows the Gospels, but with some variations. Jesus tells the Prodigal Son parable not while debating with scribes and Pharisees but while he is scandalizing the Jewish folk by eating at the house of Matthew the tax collector, and he uses the story to reconcile Matthew with Peter (James Farentino). Some scenes, like Jesus' debate with the Zealot Barabbas about political violence, are not in the Bible at all but are faithful to Jesus' teachings...
...bloodied by the picador yet ready to charge again. Where the lines have Willy on the verge of whining, Scott roars out a défi to a malignant fate. Never has the father in Willy come across so forcefully. His boys Biff and Happy, finely played by James Farentino and Harvey Keitel, are inextricably involved with this man. They cannot ignore him since his passionate concern for them and their future is so movingly transparent. Only Teresa Wright, as Willy's wife Linda, seems to lack the needed gravity for her role...
Inevitably, any actor who plays Kowalski has to cope with the memory of Marlon Brando in the original production. Brando not only exuded animal magnetism but also conveyed the inarticulate dignity of an animal. In the current production, James Farentino seems like a deliberate lowbrow, a slob who relishes being a slob. He comes across as meanspirited, and the scene in which he ravishes Blanche becomes a sordid rape instead of the elemental encounter implied by "We've had this date with each other from the beginning...
...Sesame Street and The Electric Company are brightening the day for children. But for adults, it is, as always, lame adventure series and innocuous sitcoms, the halt leading the bland. There are fewer talk shows and more movies made expressly for TV-all of them, it seems, starring James Farentino and George Peppard...